TelexFree owner suffers heart attack
I can’t even begin to imagine the toll of running a billion dollar global Ponzi scheme must take on the mind. Sleepless nights, the constant looking over your shoulder, having to spew endless excuses on camera to appease your investors and so on.
And when things go kaput, as they did with TelexFree earlier this year, sooner or later things are bound to catch up with you.
Over time, high levels of stress can lead to emotional, psychological, and physical problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pains, or irregular heartbeats. (WebMD)
For Carlos Costa, one of the three men behind TelexFree, this catching up might have manifested itself by way of an unexpected heart attack.
Known for profusely sweating in the many pro-TelexFree YouTube videos he features in, Costa (right) appears to have suffered a heart attack on Tuesday morning.
In an attempt to escape prosecution for his part in the orchestrating of TelexFree, Costa is currently running for Congress in Brazil.
An update published a few hours ago on his campaign’s Facebook page reads:
Health communiqué Carlos Costa’s campaign team candidate for Federal Deputy, Carlos Costa, informs that for health reasons, the candidate was forced to cancel all appointments under the schedule of work this week.
Carlos Costa felt ill this morning, soon after he was taken to the hospital by his family.
Arriving on site medical staff found that the applicant was suffering a heart attack, and the same was referred to a cardiac catheterization procedure.
Although the procedure was a success, the doctor recommended rest for five days, so that Carlos Costa returns to commitments agenda next Monday (8th).
It was a scare and with the grace of God our Congressman will recover from this setback.
A video accompanied the update, showing Costa lying on a hospital bed and giving viewers the thumbs up:
Costa is currently facing up to 10 years imprisonment as the criminal case against TelexFree in Brazil slowly makes its way through the legal system.
Local authorities’ comments and court papers filed in the US suggest co-operation between regulators in both countries, but as of yet Costa has not been officially charged with anything in the US.
Footnote: Costa’s campaign update and accompanying video can be viewed over at his campaign’s Facebook page (embedding has been disabled on the update).
In recent Brazilian political corruption cases, as soon as some politicians went to jail, they started to request their sentence to be changed to home arrest due to their health conditions.
The crooks were alright when it was time to commit crimes but as soon as justice put its hands on them, it was time to change to poor sick old men mode.
I can’t take out of my mind that Costa may be trying the same or, at least, using some medical BS to deceive even more his hordes of zombies and gather some votes.
That thought crossed my mind too. But it is rather difficult to fake an actual heart attack.
And I don’t see what the point would be now, before he’s actually been convicted of anything.
Was all he wanted: a non-fatal heart attack, when he is sentenced for receiving differential treatment (house arrest).
Hello Oz, when are going to review RE247365.com?
All the tip leaders from Telexfree is running it now. What do you think about this SCAM?
“Coming soon”.
I am tracking these ponzi people here in Brazil for like a year now. Contacting the so called “leaders” with nice deals to them i was able to infiltrate and get detailed information about how they trick and sell the network for the poor minded people.
I can assure 100% this:
They are still on business because, and only because, of Facebook.
All other Social Networks are worthless for them. If Facebook block these “leaders” the whole problem start to fix itself.
And i still don’t get how Facebook deny people access if they have a secondary account (like, hey look this guy is fake), but Facebook allow people use “MMN” or “multinivel” in their profile names.
Thank you moderator for allowing my comment above.
The ponzi sell scheme grid is exactly like this:
– A so called leader, that already left a network, start a new one.
– They have girls recruited on Facebook to who they promisse large profit like this, “If you help us spread this new network we can place you a nice spot in the pyramid with great earnings”.
– They start spreading and get new investors, if the new network does not pay or fail, they keep the money and jump to another try doing the same thing.
– If the business do fine they fill the layers below till the 7th line (most networks only pay to 7th line).
– They use Facebook to schedule webinars and conferences telling people to join or keep sucking as poor labors who pay taxes every day and never enjoy rich life.
– They lease fancy cars to show up like rich people, so most of followers will think leaders are doing great.
– After 3 to 6 months that network start applying new rules to make the bottom of pyramid suffer and never be able to withdraw their money.
– On Facebook they have fanpages made to show the leaders on top receiving new expensives prizes and great profits.
– People who never heard about ponzi and have no clue about what is going on, see tha fanpage and most of time fall for those girls recruited to show them how to make easy money.
– Even after the ponzi colapse they still keep some people to tehir next scam because of promisses of a better place in the pyramid.
I also managed to collect CPF numbers and bank accounts of some leaders. But the authorities are making money with ponzi too. I know about Judges and Public Prossecutors already in the scheme.
This will not end well, but i hope Facebook block them so less people will lose money.
@Oz
You would be surprised OZ!!! as a man who lives in south america, believe me, a statement and written report by a doctor is nothing a few bucks cant buy down here!!!
All you need is some heavy sweating, some “chest pain”, a dramatic wife and a few dollars. People buy official medical certificates stating that you are sick, to get off work. Why not to get off jail?
I see the video is going viral with over 270 views!
This will definitely causes CC another heart attack. This article sheds some more light on brazilian feds investigation and details about new companies used by TF/Ympactus to laundry money, all of wich seems to belong to Costa’s wife, daughter and some TF top pimps.
The article is quite long to translate into English, so I’ll just publish the original Brazilian Portuguese link.
Another interesting fact about Brazilian and American justice collaboration comes to light:
Wow, gunna take me a while to go through all of that. Standby.
Not surprising. Under-the-table money transfers to shell companies owned by relatives and friends, sudden inflation in value (put in only 200K in capital and owns stock worth 5 million?)
Furthermore, these were setup AFTER the Freeze had already been in place, thus in FLAGRANT violation of the freeze order.
Also… I know I don’t read Portuguese, but wasn’t there a murder related to TF in Brazil where some guy was a supervisor or something in candy factory? Or did I remember that wrong? Like he was shot twice in the back while walking to work at night? Or is that the wrong city?
Is the death that was reported a while back? That was Portugal IIRC (but I probably don’t).
Don’t recall a candy factory murder…
I’ll have to re-read the news, but I think it was this one, don’t know about the factory.
http://gazetaonline.globo.com/_conteudo/2014/08/noticias/cidades/1494817-homem-atira-em-ex-colega-de-trabalho-que-o-convidou-para-entrar-na-telexfree.html
Looks right. That was the day after shot. Someone had a night shot from memory, dude was wearing a green/blue tshirt.
Wow, I was right, the guy did work in a chocolate factory, AND Vila Velha is a part of Espiritu Santo.
Wonder if it’s the SAME factory mentioned in the TF money laundering op?
(it may not have been a disgruntled investor… )
Uh wait a sec… that’d then make Carlos Costa… the Candyman?
CO-MING FROM BOUNTY LAND!
And we’re live – https://behindmlm.com/companies/telexfree/telexfree-laundered-funds-through-shell-companies/
Thanks for the heads up Diego.
No, it’s not. The companies used by Costa’s gang are far away from Vila Velha City and were recently created. That chocolate factory you’ve mentioned is a respected huge old company.
Ah, thanks. That’s the problem of not being there and know details like that. But it’s one heck of a coincidence, eh?
Got a blurb from G1 that CC is going to go for a full bypass surgery soon.
The news about leaders murdered are true. In the last month another one got shot.
But MLM people keep in silence to not scare the new investors. In Brazil there is even a website that copy news from sites like behindmlm and distort information to show people MLM is a great investment.
Most of time they show a link about Telexfree subpoenas and “translate” that telling people is a good thing and justice can’t stop the company.
Today someone is posting on Facebook that Carlos Costa died..
After the heart attack Costa situation requires heart surgery:
http://www.cbnfoz.com.br/editorial/politica/05092014-198766-candidato-no-es-dono-da-telexfree-vai-passar-por-cirurgia-apos-infarto